News-Swami detects a note of sarcasm in your question, Bunky.
How can one question the price tag for a place that creates the next great world class scientists, the next great thinker in literature and the arts, the person who will cure cancer and …hey, wait just a darn minute …
News-Swami thought you said University of Chicago.
A teacher who works there has told Swami that College of Lake County is more like a trade school with good finger-painting classes. It keeps the kids off the street. Swami thinks that's a little harsh. On the other hand, $90,000 is only the average and the contract only covers a nine-month year. That's an average of $2,500 a week. Pretty suh-WEET gravy from the old public trough.
The most recent crystal ball broadcasts at the News-Swami’s psychic control show CLC teachers and administrators make more than at any of the other three dozen or so other community colleges in Illinois. They must print their own money in Grayslake. News-Swami is envious. Now there's a class Swami would take.
Swami believes everyone should make a buck, but CLC spends taxpayer money likes it's a sailor on shore leave.
They’ve got one person there whose title is Vice President for Student Development. He makes $136 Gs a year which is 9 Gs less than the Veep for Administrative Affairs. Must be a lotta affairs on that campus. You can’t have your administrators having affairs on campus. It ruins morale and causes unwanted pregnancy.
Swami thinks the best high school English teacher in the county deserves 100 Gs …the one who sends most of her students to real colleges. Teaching at the College of Last Chances seems pretty far down the old tenured totem pole for that much cash.
But if the faculty there actually deserved as much as they're being paid, the only good measurement, Swami believes, is the percentage of incoming freshmen who eventually graduate from four-universities within five years. CLC doesn't talk much about that number. Swami's crystal ball suggests the number isn't so hot. Or at least not so much better than other community colleges to justify the big gap in money.
Guy I know there makes $120,000 and barely two does classes a week...
First thing the title for the blog posting should be-
Do CLC teachers actually deserve $90,000 a year? Not Can! Where did the swami go to school?
Second, instructors making $90,000 are not the norm and may indeed be working all year round and not nine months. There are plenty of instructors who teach classes only part-time and get paid only for what they teach. What is the seniority of the typical $90,000 teacher you are asking about? Look at the average pay for someone in business with a Masters degree (needed for actual college courses) and see what they get in a year. They are not even close! MBAs are worth plenty of bucks.
Think of the administration (Vice President of Student Development)as in the management level of a company with the same amount of employees as students at CLC and the $$$ don't seem to be that far off.
As for the quality of CLC, it is quite high actually. My daughter got her associates there, went on to get her bachelors at a state school, and is almost done with her masters. An Honors student all the way!!!! CLC is great to begin an education that these days costs a fortune.
As a teacher, she will make less than a full-time employee in a grocery store. So much for the big bucks!!!!!!!!!!!!
SWAMI SAYS--- Dear little Od person, under the new contract, the average salary of a faculty member will be $90,000 for nine months at the end of the current contract. "Adjuncts" aren't considered "real" teachers by the contracted faculty or by the administration, either. They're cheap, hired help designed to fill up courses that real faculty wouldn't teach if their lives depended on it. As the school notes, the "average" salary of a fulltime faculty member will be $90,000.....
Swami is indeed wise. Swami has answered the question. They are feeding at the public trough.
Another question to ponder; What is the ratio of administrators to students and why are so many needed?
After attending CLC for several classes, I don't think that most of the teachers should get $90,000 a year. Most of the teachers only have a few classes. I had one teacher tell the class if you want a gravy job teach at CLC. And most of the classes are on line so what do they need teachers for ? Have the computer correct the on line test.